Architecture And Art Quotes - Page 2

• All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sunset, Nocturnal, Architecture

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Imagination, Triumph

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Infinity, Principles, Gothic

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.199

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• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Architecture, Architect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.29, Wildside Press LLC

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• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty, Badass, Mistake

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

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• All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Sunset, Bad Ass

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• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Badass, Bad Ass, Doors

  Guardian 20 Feb. 1979

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• Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Two, Together, Bricks

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• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  Salvador Dali

  Beauty, Art, Nouveau Riche

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• We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Badass, Bad Ass, Civilization

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

  Luis Barragan

  Gardening, Landscape, Architecture

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• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

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• Design is where science and art break even.

  Robin Mathews

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks

  Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

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• You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Light, Doors

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• I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Cities, Littles

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.122, John Ruskin

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• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

  Michelangelo

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, E. H. Ramsden (1963). “The Letters of Michelangelo”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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• When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

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• I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.

  Charles Jencks

  Art, Car, Perfect

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